Archive for September 18, 2006
“In the end, it’s fitting that Bill Clinton would eulogize Texas ex-Governor Ann Richards for the “big things” she accomplished. Executing 49 people, including two juveniles and two mentally disabled prisoners certainly is “big.” Clinton only executed three people as Governor of Arkansas.”
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
Figure at Window, 1925. Dali.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
According to a new poll, 66% of Palestinians oppose recognition of Israel.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
“An Army specialist who alleges she was sexually harrassed while serving in Iraq faces possible court martial after not returning for second tour.”
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
Today, the Syrian government arrested the director, `Umar Amiralay. The government of Bashshar Al-Asad exhibits a unique combination of oppressiveness and stupidity. Amiralay is best known for his hagiographic film on Rafiq Hariri. How could anybody really support the government of Bashshar Al-Asad. Like Jordan and Egypt: that government should be overthrown, NOW.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
Freedom comes to Iraq. Freedom comes to Iraq. Read all about it. The US-run Iraqi government may have achived a new…low. According to one study, 109 journalists sit in Iraqi puppet and US jails in Iraq.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
“Let’s be clear what we’re talking about here. According to an ABC News report from last fall, procedures used by C.I.A. interrogators have included forcing prisoners to “stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hoursâ€; the “cold cell,†in which prisoners are forced “to [...]
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
Daily Star now publishes op-ed pieces by Robert Hunter. Enough said.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
Do you remember when Israeli military claimed that they arrested tens of Hizbullah fighters during the war? Well, they have three. Did the Israeli government tell one truth during the war?
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
“Canadian police wrongly identified an Ottawa software engineer as an Islamic extremist, prompting U.S. agents to deport him to Syria, where he was tortured, an official inquiry concluded on Monday. Maher Arar, who holds Canadian and Syrian nationality, was arrested in New York in September 2002 and accused of being an al-Qaeda member. In fact, [...]
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
Spinach linked to Al-Qa`idah. Read all about it.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
” Jihad Abu Snaima was just the most recent of more than 37 children and teenagers under 18 killed [out of a total death toll, including militants, of 228] in the operations mounted by the Israeli military in Gaza since 25 June, according to figures from the Palestinian Centre of Human Rights (PCHR).”
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
“What all of these people have in common is that they are not ordinary illegal immigrants. They were born here, or have lived here for dozens of years, and they have nowhere else to go. However, due solely to bureaucratic reasons, they have no legal status here.” Oh, yeah, Haaretz. Solely “bureaucratic reasons.” You figured [...]
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
London Times supports the Pope.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
“Dubai has sold its soul to globalization like few cities have. A glittering capitalist fantasyland has taken shape at the heart of the Arab world.”
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
The passage of time makes me more–not less–angry at Yasir `Arafat. He did so much damage to the Palestinian cause. He was more harmful to the Palestinian national movement than Hajj Amin Husayni and Ahmad Shuqayri combined. What do you expect from a man who ordered the assassination of a cartoonist?
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
I remain convinced that the Arab people will not be able to deal with all their challenges (oppression, poverty, Zionism, return of colonial threats and foreign intervention, divisiveness, obscurantism, clerical powers, fundamentalism) without a change of government in Saudi Arabia. It should be the priority of Arab collective action.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
Saudi media can’t get enough of Iraqi Shi`ite cleric (and a member of the Iyad `Allawi gang–`Allawi being the former puppet prime minister/car bomber/former Saddam’s henchman/embezzler-in-Yemen), Iyad Jamal Ad-Din. He (along with Zarqawites) is one of the most effective agitators and promoters of Sunni-Shi`ite discord.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
Qasim Qasir is a very well-informed writer on Islamic affairs. I have always urged him to leave Hariri rag, Al-Mustaqbal. Here, he gives a good analysis of the radicalization of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad
This article by Hariri vulgar propagandist, Faris Khashshan (only in Lebanon he would be considered a “journalist”) proves that Muhsin Ibrahim is close to the stance of Walid Jumblat. Shame on Muhsin Ibrahim.
Posted on September 18, 2006 by As'ad